Responding to Risks of Climate Change—and to Risks of Responding to Climate Change

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Judith Curry delivers a (typically) very thoughtful analysis of one attempt to push people into applying the “Precautionary Principle” so as to embrace major policy initiatives to mitigate “climate change” to avoid its risks. I’ll not try to summarize here other than to say she shows clearly that the arguments fail. Read her post here. […]

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Never Underestimate Your Opponent—Coming to Grips with the Paris Climate Agreement

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Master Sun [Tzu] talks often about deception and therefore warns against being deceived by the enemy and underestimating their ability. ‘He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.’ It’s important to properly assess your opponent without prejudice or assumption. Many skeptics of catastrophic, anthropogenic global

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Unelected, Unaccountable Greens Dictated Clean Power Plan to EPA

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Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute under FOIA demonstrate that EPA almost certainly violated federal law by using private email to correspond with the Natural Resources Defense Council, correspondence in which NRDC essentially drafted critical parts of the “Clean Power Plan,” or even, as the Wall Street Journal puts it, “the rule,” not

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Think Carefully Before Welcoming Humane Society Policies

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Humans should only be eating animals raised under humane conditions. Sounds perfectly innocent doesn’t it? After all who wants to think of animals suffering just so that he/she can have a cheap burger or chicken patty? This is essentially the argument cleverly proffered by Pete Letheby in the article “Farmers team up with the Humane

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Whose Policies Kill More People: ISIS…or Greenpeace?

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Approximately 200,000 people have died due to global terrorism in the last 10 years. During the same time, many millions of people (mostly women and children) have died due to policies promoted by Greenpeace and other “green” organizations (e.g. anti-DDT, anti-golden rice, anti-fossil fuel). I’ve said it before…I don’t really care where our energy comes

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Signers of Open Letter to American People etc. By Degree Level

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As of November 23, 2015 Doctoral Level Degrees Sheila Prabhakar Abraham, Ph.D. (Entomology), Associate Professor of Biology, Southeastern University, Evangelical Protestant, Lakeland, FL, USA Robert V. Acuff, Ph.D. (Nutritional Biochemistry), Professor, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, East TN State University, Evangelical Protestant, Elizabethton, TN, USA Dwight D. Allman, Ph.D. (Political Science), Associate Professor of

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2015 Will be the 3rd Warmest Year in the Satellite Record

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Way back in June, John Christy and I called 2015 as being the warmest year on record … in the surface thermometer data. Given the strong El Nino in progress, on top of the official thermometer data warming trend, this seemed pretty obvious. Of course, everyone has their opinions regarding how good the thermometer temperature trends are,

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